Behold, I bring you even more WordPress-related statistics! Today : the most popular words in plugin names. Use them to come up with new plugin ideas, figure out which services/features are over- or under-represented in the WP plugin ecosystem, and more.

Here’s a tag cloud of the names of all plugins listed in the WordPress.org directory (click the image for a higher-res version) :

The above tag cloud has been filtered to exclude extremely common words like “WordPress” and “Plugin”. You can also view the unfiltered tag cloud.

For those who prefer precise numbers, I’ve also prepared a Top 30 list of the most popular words. This one’s not filtered in any way except converting all words to their base form (e.g. “posts” -> “post”, “commenting” -> “comment”, etc) :

Word

Occurences

WP

803

Widget

506

WordPress

465

Post

400

Plugin

329

Comment

290

Link

198

Page

184

Tag

141

Image

140

Twitter

128

Category

128

Google

128

Simple

114

List

100

Admin

98

Search

97

Gallery

95

User

86

Manage

85

Custom

83

Feed

79

Blog

76

Random

75

Theme

65

Login

64

Author

64

RSS

64

Content

62

Social

60

Video

60

Recent

56

SEO

56

New

55

Dashboard

54

My

54

Easy

53

Button

53

AJAX

52

Code

51

Stats

49

Form

48

Just pick any two (or three) words from the above table and you’re almost guaranteed to get a plausible-sounding plugin name 🙂

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